What happens when you line up a W212 E63 AMG S, M6 Gran Coupe, and Jaguar XFR-S for a drag rice? Watch and find out

What happens when you line up a W212 E63 AMG S, M6 Gran Coupe, and Jaguar XFR-S for a drag rice? Watch and find out

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What happens when you line up a W212 E63 AMG S, M6 Gran Coupe, and Jaguar XFR-S for a drag rice? Watch and find out

Here are three of the most powerful luxury sport sedans off the showroom floor one can purchase today. Now you may be asking, where is the Audi RS6/RS7 in this comparison? Oddly enough its omission makes sense as the E63 AMG S is only available for sale in the United Kingdom as a rear wheel drive car. This is in stark contrast to how the W212 E63 AMG is sold in the United States which is only in 4Matic all wheel drive form whether it be the standard E63 or the S model.

Hey, you make sense of it. All the sedans in the video are rear wheel drive so it is somewhat of a fair game in a drag race. If you want to skip straight to the race go to the 12:55 mark in the video below.

So the Jaguar is the heaviest and the least powerful. The weight for the E63 AMG S is hard to believe as that is roughly a 400 pound difference between it and the 4Matic 63 AMG S models tested in the United States. We do not put too much faith in Drive's weight testing procedures as they are likely quoting given weights.

Now Chris Harris takes these all out on the track but it's wet and provides no lap times so it amounts to nothing more than him babbling on and on about how they drift and feel. He actually even calls this almost irrelevant himself making for the most accurate piece of performance analysis he has ever done.

The M6 just flat out pulls away from the others. It's the fastest car in the comparison and that is impressive considering the raw muscle of the E63 AMG S M157 is routed to the rear wheels and it isn't carrying the 4Matic weight. The Jaguar lags a bit behind the other two but is obviously quite quick itself.

What were the times and trap speeds? Well, Drive did not provide them but at least provided some acceleration figures:

This is a victory due to the M6's transmission and of course its use in combination with the excellent S63TU V8. If you are not a believer in the dual clutch performance advantage and think Mercedes AMG has BMW beat in performance simply due to more displacement, guess again.

Loved the last M6, this one is no different. Not sure why they made a sedan though...why not just make an M7? And wouldn't the M5 be the competitor to the E-class? Still though, awesome car, and love the interior

No because an M7 would compete with the S8 and S63 AMG. The M6 slots against the CLS63 AMG and RS7.

Ok, I hear ya, too many choices lol, I miss when BMW didn't feel the need to have a so many different "steps" in their lineup like MB. I mean besides styling what's the different in a CLS63 and an S63?

Because he's so popular now...even Ferrari sent him an F12 just for the purpose of him to drift around a track! And this is after they said he'd never be allowed to drive a Ferrari from their press fleet again after Chris accused them of using "optimized" press cars.

Ok, I hear ya, too many choices lol, I miss when BMW didn't feel the need to have a so many different "steps" in their lineup like MB. I mean besides styling what's the different in a CLS63 and an S63?

Well the weight and suspension.

BMW M got watered down. They decided to chase the dollar. That is also why I don't respect them as much any longer.

Because he's so popular now...even Ferrari sent him an F12 just for the purpose of him to drift around a track! And this is after they said he'd never be allowed to drive a Ferrari from their press fleet again after Chris accused them of using "optimized" press cars.

Even after all that $#@! he talked on Ferrari?

I don't understand why he's popular though. The first 10 minutes of the video are basically worthless. It's like listening to a girl talk about how she feels about cars. Why sit through that? Show me what they do.

I don't understand why he's popular though. The first 10 minutes of the video are basically worthless. It's like listening to a girl talk about how she feels about cars. Why sit through that? Show me what they do.

I agree with you totally but what I've noticed is that people like reviews of guys that can slide a car around and really push it to it's limits. I like his work but in reality there's only so many roads we can do that safely if we have the skill for it and track day's aren't as popular here as they are in Europe where you can go to places like Spa & the Nurburgring. Another plus for Chris is the fact he's the only guy over there besides Auto Motor Sport to provide hard numbers as opposed to purely subjective reviews like most Euro magazines.